Doom the politics of catastrophe

By:

Ferguson, Niall

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Penguin Press 2021Description: xiii,472p.;25cmISBN:

978-0241488447

Subject(s):

COVID-19 (Disease)--History

DDC classification:

362.196 FER

Summary: Disasters are inherently hard to predict. But when catastrophe strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were when Vesuvius erupted or medieval Italians when the Black Death struck. We have science on our side, after all. Yet the responses of many developed countries to a new pathogen from China were badly bungled. Why?

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dodoma Biography	362.196 FER (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	URD001909

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Disasters are inherently hard to predict. But when catastrophe strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were when Vesuvius erupted or medieval Italians when the Black Death struck. We have science on our side, after all. Yet the responses of many developed countries to a new pathogen from China were badly bungled. Why?

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